Thursday 2nd July 2015:Computing students present their research work and build a robot to climb unto a chair.

Thursday evening Formal Dinner at the Lloyd Thomas Dining Room:

Friday 3rd, July 2015, Engineering Conference speakers highlights:

Session 1: IoT – Mr Ian Stewart

* Concept of IoT was outlined. “Connecting Digital lives and Services together”
* The vision (movement) was considered from multiple angles (i.e. economic, medicine, agriculture and etc.)
* One of the main points considered was the marketing aspect.
* Increase in use of sensor networks was outlined. By 2020 over 40% of Internet traffic will be generated by sensors.
* General information was provided about Arqiva and the nature of work they are involved with. (i.e. UK National television and radio broadcast, GSM infrastructure deployments and etc.)
* Involvement of Mr Stewart with multiple telecommunication companies across Europe in deployment and marketing aspects of their infrastructures.
* It was highlighted that “WE” (as individuals, academic institutions and corporate organizations) should have a strategy for surviving in the age of IoT (2020 – onwards).
* The scope of activities affected by IoT is vast and applications of such infrastructure are limitless.
* Mr Stewart also elaborated how in this day and age, we don’t necessarily need a significant amount of money to start a successful enterprise. It was highlighted that all the pieces are there, we just have to be clever in putting them together (i.e. Facebook).
* After the speech, possible research collaboration opportunities were discussed in brief. And such activities are to be scheduled for near future.

Session 2: FACE Research – Dr Caerwyn Ash

* Speech was focused on Medical devices and their applications. A number of (Ideas/Developments) were outlined:
* Continuous improvement of some tools was discussed: